Grown-Up Christmas List- Day 160

When I was little, I just knew this song was one of my mom's favorites. I remember someone singing it in our old church and going home to tell Mom (who was sick) that they played her favorite song at church. I would hear it from time to time after that and loved it each time, but I still didn't hear much of it. Then I got Amy Grant's latest Christmas CD 2 years ago, and this song was on there. I have that CD copied onto my laptop here at school, so for the past three Christmases, I play this CD almost constantly while I'm at school. This song gets me every time. :)

My Grown-Up Christmas List by Amy Grant
Grown-up christmas list
Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee;
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies.

Well, I?m all grown-up now,
And still need help somehow.(can you still help somehow)
I?m not a child,
But my heart still can dream.

So here?s my lifelong wish,
My grown-up christmas list.
Not for myself,
But for a world in need.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,(and wars would never start)
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree.(wrapped beneath the tree)

Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth.
(there'd be)

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end, oh.
This is my grown-up christmas list.

This is my grown-up christmas list.



I totally got chills watching this video, just reflecting on some things going on in my life and the lives of those around me.